A cabinet card portrait photograph of Dr. W. L. Dudley, a distinguished scientist, lecturer, and head of the Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. Dudley was born in 1859 in Covington, Kentucky. He earned his...

A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about graduates in the beauty culture school in Columbia, Tennessee. The caption reads: “Columbia, Tenn., March 1 (Spl.) Students of the NYA girls school here, which reopened at the historic...

A close-up view of the sea-dragon art sculpture at Fannie Mae Dees Park, Nashville, Tennessee, circa 1980s. Located at Blakemore Avenue and 24th Avenue South, this urban park has informally been referred to as Cavert-Eakin park because of the...

A close-up view of the sea-dragon art sculpture at Fannie Mae Dees Park, Nashville, Tennessee, circa 1980s. Located at Blakemore Avenue and 24th Avenue South, this urban park has informally been referred to as Cavert-Eakin park because of the...

A close-up view of the sea-dragon art sculpture at Fannie Mae Dees Park, Nashville, Tennessee, circa November 1982. Located at Blakemore Avenue and 24th Avenue South, this urban park has informally been referred to as Cavert-Eakin park because of...

A page from a mounted and bound volume of twenty-five pen-and-ink wash drawings, and two pen-and-ink maps of Nashville created by William A. Eichbaum during the 1850s. Eichbaum was a Nashville bookseller and resident for fifty years. This drawing...

A photograph of a man leaving his Bellevue home with suitcases during the May 2010 flood, helped by Mary Makley and other volunteers.
Forms part of the Nashville Room Flood 2010 Digital History Project.

A photograph of people carrying possessions from their homes in Bellevue during the May 2010 flood, helped by Mary Makley and other volunteers.
Forms part of the Nashville Room Flood 2010 Digital History Project.

A photograph of the Capers Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal (C.M.E.) Church located at 319 Fifteenth Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee. This building was built in 1925 by the nation's first African-American-owned architectural firm,...

A scene related to the Fannie Mae Dees Park, Nashville, Tennessee, circa 1980s. Located at Blakemore Avenue and 24th Avenue South, this urban park has informally been referred to as Cavert-Eakin park because of the location near those two...

A scene related to the Fannie Mae Dees Park, Nashville, Tennessee, circa 1980s. Located at Blakemore Avenue and 24th Avenue South, this urban park has informally been referred to as Cavert-Eakin park because of the location near those two...

A view of some of the three-dimensional exhibit that was on display at the Nashville Children’s Museum, circa January 1954. This was a joint project of the Nashville Association of Model Engineers, the board of directors of the Museum, and the...

A view of some of the three-dimensional exhibit that was on display at the Nashville Children’s Museum, circa January 1954. This was a joint project of the Nashville Association of Model Engineers, the board of directors of the Museum, and the...

A view of some of the three-dimensional exhibit that was on display at the Nashville Children’s Museum, circa January 1954. This was a joint project of the Nashville Association of Model Engineers, the board of directors of the Museum, and the...

A view of some of the three-dimensional exhibit that was on display at the Nashville Children’s Museum, circa January 1954. This was a joint project of the Nashville Association of Model Engineers, the board of directors of the Museum, and the...

A view of some of the three-dimensional exhibit that was on display at the Nashville Children’s Museum, circa January 1954. This was a joint project of the Nashville Association of Model Engineers, the board of directors of the Museum, and the...

Adults and children at the playground in Fannie Mae Dees Park, Nashville, Tennessee, circa November 1982. Located at Blakemore Avenue and 24th Avenue South, this urban park has informally been referred to as Cavert-Eakin park because of the...

An outdoors scene at Fannie Mae Dees Park, Nashville, Tennessee, circa November 1982. Located at Blakemore Avenue and 24th Avenue South, this urban park has informally been referred to as Cavert-Eakin park because of the location near those two...

An outdoors scene at Fannie Mae Dees Park, Nashville, Tennessee, circa November 1982. Located at Blakemore Avenue and 24th Avenue South, this urban park has informally been referred to as Cavert-Eakin park because of the location near those two...

An outdoors scene at Fannie Mae Dees Park, Nashville, Tennessee, circa November 1982. Located at Blakemore Avenue and 24th Avenue South, this urban park has informally been referred to as Cavert-Eakin park because of the location near those two...